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> [ “The Archbishop \[Thomas Becket\] was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of the twenty-ninth of December. The body lay in the Cathedral all night, and was prepared for burial on the following day. The Archbishop was dressed in an… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/the-archbishop-thomas-becket-was-murdered-in-canterbury-cathedral-on/)

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## More by Hans Zinsser

> [“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/infectious-disease-is-one-of-the-great-tragedies-of-living-things-the/)

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> [Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/infectious-disease-is-one-of-the-few-genuine-adventures-left-in-the/)

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> [Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/infectious-disease-is-one-of-the-few-genuine-adventures-left-in-the-2/)

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> [Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/our-task-as-we-grow-older-in-a-rapidly-advancing-science-is-to-retain/)

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> [ “It is with the \[head louse and body louse\] that we are chiefly concerned, and they are so closely related that, even now, by… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/it-is-with-the-head-louse-and-body-louse-that-we-are-chiefly/)

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> [ ... \[I\]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/i-nfectious-disease-is-merely-a-disagreeable-instance-of-a-widely/)

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> [Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/throughout-the-early-christian-period-every-great-calamity-famine/)

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> [“Medical historians have cited many observations which they regarded as indicating the ancient existence of syphilis; but most of these, on close scrutiny, turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/medical-historians-have-cited-many-observations-which-they-regarded/)

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> [“Man and the rat are utterly destructive. All that nature offers is taken for their own purposes, plant or beast. Gradually these two have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/man-and-the-rat-are-utterly-destructive-all-that-nature-offers-is/)

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> [But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/but-however-secure-and-well-regulated-civilized-life-may-become/)

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> [“In 1577 there was committed to prison at Oxford a certain Rowland Jencks, a Catholic bookbinder who was accused of speaking evil of ‘that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/in-1577-there-was-committed-to-prison-at-oxford-a-certain-rowland/)

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> [We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/we-have-chosen-to-write-the-biography-of-our-disease-because-we-love/)

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> [ “The Archbishop \[Thomas Becket\] was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of the twenty-ninth of December. The body lay in the Cathedral all… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/the-archbishop-thomas-becket-was-murdered-in-canterbury-cathedral-on/)

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> [“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/swords-lances-arrows-machine-guns-and-even-high-explosives-have-had/)

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